Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Cloud)

About the Role

Our team is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join us in supporting and developing features on the Epic Games Store backend. In this role, you will be a subject matter expert in your area, lead critical initiatives, collaborate with other senior engineers, and help mentor the team to develop scalable and reliable backend services.

What You'll Do

• Be a subject matter expert in backend engineering.
• Collaborate with other senior engineers, product owners, and stakeholders to define technical strategies and roadmaps.
• Drive the design and implementation of highly scalable, reliable, and secure backend services, ensuring alignment with architectural principles and best practices.
• Champion best practices for performance optimization, observability, reliability, scalability, and security across all backend systems.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Take ownership of complex technical challenges, troubleshoot production issues, and implement effective solutions to ensure system stability and availability.
• Lead and participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards.
• Continuously evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and processes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of backend development.

What We're Looking For

• Significant experience in backend software development, with a strong focus on designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, distributed systems.
• Proven expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns, data structures, and algorithms, with the ability to apply them to solve complex technical problems.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including mentoring junior engineers, leading technical initiatives, and influencing technical direction.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a passion for tackling challenging technical issues in a fast-paced environment.
• A keen eye for performance optimization, observability, reliability, scalability, and security.
• You're user-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits inform all of your decisions and actions.